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but Mpigs read the mood on the ground.

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what happened to disbanding parliament and we have a new erection???
wadau we are pawns.
welcome to TBT

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FORGOTTEN HEROES
When modern Kenya was being forged, a small group of Nubian soldiers and their families were
recruited to guard those building it. They fought here, lived here and built lives here.Over 100 years later they are now the 43rd Kenyan tribe.
The Nubians in Kenya started their journey here as soldiers, a very long time ago. In Sudan, they had been fighting for their own country when Fredrick Lugard, Captain of the Imperial British East African Company (IBEAC), arrived in 1890. He incorporated them into the IBEAC, and, with about 10,000 of their dependants, the Sudanese soldiers moved south to Uganda where they fought to help Captain Lugard strengthen the British Protectorate. In 1895 they became the
Uganda Rifles and the East Africa Rifles, soldiers under the British rule.
In total, there were 17 Nubian Garrisons in Kenya, including Kisii, Iten, Kisumu, Kibos, Mazeras, Kibirigo, Migori, Bungoma, Katumo, Meru, Isiolo, Mogotio, Mombasa and Nairobi. In these Garrisons, the soldiers were separated from their wives and children and were put in seclusion where and taken through rigorous training.
Between 1896 and 1901, during the construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway, the IBEAC employed their services, among other African solidiers, to guard those working on the Lunatic Express.
In 1902, after construction of the railway was completed, the British government formed the first regular troops of soldiers by combining the East African Rifles, the Uganda Rifles and the Central African Regiment to form the King’s African Rifles.

When the First World War broke out in 1914, Nubian soldiers from Kenya and Uganda, as part of the KARs, formed the Third and Fourth Battalions which fought against German troops in Taveta, Mozambique and Northern Rhodesia.
After the war the Nubian Soldiers wanted to go back home but the British had a different plan for them. To make them stay they showed the soldiers a fake letter from The Sudanese government that said they had no place in The Sudan, so they might as well stay and defend Kenya!!!
Nubians in the Third Battalion were retired to Kibra, which the British government had gazetted in 1918 as a military reserve. The soldiers were issued with Shamba Passes, temporary land licences, for plots of land which they settled on with
their dependants. At the time this plot measured 4,200 acres.
The Nubian Soldiers fought in the First World War to prevent the Germans from over-running Kenya and in the Second World War they fought to protect Kenya from the Italians.
Nubians have a very long military history that goes as far back as first century BC and sith century AD. It is believed they also fought alongside Roman soldiers during the expansion of the roman empire. The Nubian kingdom of Meroë on the upper Nile was generally on good terms with the Romans; people and goods moved back and forth into Roman Egypt with some regularity along the river Nile!. Here is an old photo of the the original 3rd Bn. K.A.R formed in 1902. seen here returning to Nairobi after tour of duty.
Courtesy:The National Archives United Kingdom

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Two revolutionaries.Both consistent in their ideological commitments,one more belligerent than the other but both strong in their beliefs unto death.
Fidel rarely donned a suit and tie but when you are meeting Mandela,you sacrifice some of your persona.

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1960 - Tom Mboya in Nairobi hospital after a car crash on Mombasa road with skull, arm and thigh injuries. Mr. Mboya had recently returned from a visit to the United States.

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1974 - President Mobutu Sese Seko in his Personal C-130 Aircraft. Note the custom leopard skin seat.

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Rioters throw furniture and files out of the Belgian Embassy in Cairo before setting it on fire following reports of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba.
@FieldMarshal CouchP @gashwin your services are required here, this thumb generation hawajui Lumumba

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This house in Mikindani in southern Tanzania was the starting point for David Livingstone’s last expedition. He stayed here from 24 March to 7 April 1866.

Setting out from the mouth of the Ruvuma river Livingstone’s assistants began deserting him. The Comoros Islanders had returned to Zanzibar and informed authorities that Livingstone had died. He reached Lake Malawi on 6 August, by which time most of his supplies, including all his medicines, had been stolen. Livingstone then travelled through swamps in the direction of Lake Tanganyika. With his health declining he sent a message to Zanzibar requesting supplies be sent to Ujiji and he then headed west. Forced by ill health to travel with slave traders he arrived at Lake Mweru on 8 November 1867 and continued on, travelling south to become the first European to see Lake Bangweulu. Finding the Lualaba River, Livingstone decided it was the “real” Nile, but in fact it flows to the Upper Congo Lake.

In March 1869 Livingstone, suffering from pneumonia, arrived in Ujiji to find his supplies stolen. Coming down with cholera and tropical ulcers on his feet he was again forced to rely on slave traders to get him as far as Bambara where he was caught by the wet season. With no supplies, Livingstone had to eat his meals in a roped off open enclosure for the entertainment of the natives in return for food. Following the end of the wet season he returned to Ujiji arriving on 23 October 1871.

Although Livingstone was wrong about the Nile, he discovered for Western science numerous geographical features, such as Lake Ngami, Lake Malawi, and Lake Bangweulu in addition to Victoria Falls mentioned above. He filled in details of Lake Tanganyika, Lake Mweru and the course of many rivers, especially the upper Zambezi, and his observations enabled large regions to be mapped which previously had been blank. Even so, the furthest north he reached, the north end of Lake Tanganyika, was still south of the Equator and he did not penetrate the rainforest of the River Congo any further downstream than Ntangwe near Misisi.

Livingstone was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society of London and was made a Fellow of the society, with which he had a strong association for the rest of his life.

Livingstone completely lost contact with the outside world for six years and was ill for most of the last four years of his life. Only one of his 44 letter dispatches made it to Zanzibar. One surviving letter to Horace Waller, made available to the public in 2010 by its owner Peter Beard, reads: “I am terribly knocked up but this is for your own eye only, … Doubtful if I live to see you again …”

Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent to find him by the New York Herald newspaper in 1869, found Livingstone in the town of Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on 27 October 1871, greeting him with the now famous words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” to which he responded “Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you.” These famous words may have been a fabrication, as Stanley later tore out the pages of this encounter in his diary. Even Livingstone’s account of this encounter does not mention these words. However, the phrase appears in a New York Herald editorial dated 10 August 1872, and the Encyclopædia Britannica and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography both quote it without questioning its veracity. The words are famous because of their tongue-in-cheek humourous nature: Dr. Livingstone was the only white person for hundreds of miles.

Some in Burundi claim the famous meeting took place 12 km south of Bujumbura at the spot marked by the Livingstone–Stanley Monument, Mugere, but that marks a visit they made 15 days after their first meeting on their joint exploration of the north end of Lake Tanganyika, which ended when Stanley left in March the next year.

Despite Stanley’s urgings, Livingstone was determined not to leave Africa until his mission was complete. His illness made him confused and he had judgment difficulties at the end of his life. He explored the Lualaba and, failing to find connections to the Nile, returned to Lake Bangweulu and its swamps to explore possible rivers flowing out northwards.

David Livingstone died in that area in Chief Chitambo’s village at Ilala southeast of Lake Bangweulu in far western Tanzania, on 1 May 1873 from malaria and internal bleeding caused by dysentery. He took his final breaths while kneeling in prayer at his bedside. (His journal indicates that the date of his death would have been 1 May, but his attendants noted the date as 4 May, which they carved on a tree and later reported; this is the date on his grave.) Britain wanted the body to give it a proper ceremony, but the tribe would not give his body to them. Finally they relented, but cut the heart out and put a note on the body that said, “You can have his body, but his heart belongs in Africa!”. Livingstone’s heart was buried under a Mvula tree near the spot where he died, now the site of the Livingstone Memorial. His body together with his journal was carried over a thousand miles by his loyal attendants Chuma and Susi, and was returned to Britain for burial. After lying in repose at No.1 Savile Row—then the headquarters of the Royal Geographic Society, now the home of bespoke tailors Gieves & Hawkes— his remaining remains were interred at Westminster Abbey.

source: http://enacademic.com/

Nyerere, Castro, Mobutu and Kaunda.
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Jumanne Mhero Ngoma, the man who discovered Tanzanite.

A stunning pendant fitted with crystals that radiate rays of velvet blue from every facet, seen at the Tiffany & Co. store in New York, captures the enduring beauty of tanzanite – one of the world’s most sought-after minerals.

As anyone who has ever caught a glimpse of the jewelry on display can testify, tanzanite is certainly a precious stone, a thousand times rarer than diamond.

However, almost 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers) away – at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro – the man behind the discovery of the glittering material lives in poverty.

Jumanne Mhero Ngoma, an 84-year-old Meru herdsman, stumbled upon the glittering crystals while herding cattle in January 1967 in Mererani, in Tanzania’s northern Arusha region.

“When I first spotted them, I knew they were precious stones and that my family would immensely benefit from it,” Ngoma tells Anadolu Agency.

However, five decades after the mammoth discovery, Ngoma and his family are huddled in a modest mud-walled house topped by a corrugated-iron roof, pondering what the future holds.

Muddy rainwater fills an unpaved courtyard riddled by potholes. Plaster crumbles from the walls. A cat gives birth to kittens under the belly of an old model jeep, standing immobile for a long time.

Ngoma struggles to eke out a living, depending on a few livestock, farming and handouts from his children who live in Dar es Salaam.

“I am very disappointed because a multi-million dollar business has refused to lift me up from poverty,” he says.

The soft-spoken gypsum miner recalls how he discovered the stones lying on the ground.

“They were scattered everywhere. I collected many samples which scientists later proved were a rare type of zoisite mineral,” he says. In 1984 the government of Tanzania, through its Commission for Science and Technology, officially acknowledged Ngoma’s rare discovery.

He was awarded a certificate – seen by Anadolu Agency – a plaque and 50,000 Tanzanian shillings (US$22 at today’s exchange rate). The honor he still holds dear. “I was very glad to be recognized because that proved to the world that I was the one who discovered the stones.”

According to Ngoma, then-President Julius Nyerere named the crystals tanzanite because he wanted them to reflect the country’s national identity.

Despite his official recognition, Ngoma experienced many disappointments as other people were wrongly credited with his discovery. Even when it was corrected, he did not receive any tangible benefits.

Ngoma said he has for many years been involved in a fierce legal battle against one of the country’s biggest tanzanite mining companies for promoting Ali Juu Ya Watu, a Maasai tribesman, as the discoverer of the crystals.

According to Tanzanite One, the rare substance was discovered by Juu Ya Watu while walking through the Kilimanjaro foothills on the way to visit relatives. He then reportedly shared the stones with South African Manuel de Souza, a tailor and prospector.

However, there’s no evidence at the National Museum of Tanzania linking Juu Ya Watu or his family with the discovery.

“I am very disappointed because some people take advantage of my discovery to gain popularity,” Ngoma said.

Prized between $600-800 per carat compared to diamond which is sold at $1,000-1,400 per carat, tanzanite is big business.

Despite being a relatively new gem, tanzanite has quickly become popular with modern stars and celebrities.

Actor Cate Blanchett famously wore an enormous tanzanite necklace to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Penelope Cruz’s engagement ring has a central tanzanite stone and Anne Hathaway wore tanzanite earrings to go with her blue Armani gown at the 2011 Oscars.

The owner of the country’s largest tanzanite extraction operation, Richland, reported in 2011 a profit of $3.5 million on revenues of $20.5 million.

Despite being a multi-million dollar business, Tanzania’s government has not benefited from its revenues, officials say.

President John Magufuli, who gained popularity for his anti-corruption crusade, said last week Tanzania gets just five percent of its revenue from the global tanzanite trade, adding that the rest of the precious gemstone benefits foreigners.

In an effort to seal off the loopholes that unscrupulous traders have been using, Magufuli has instructed the military to build walls around its tanzanite mines to prevent smuggling.

At the Merelani mine, the allure of tanzanite is to such an extent that people risk their lives to hammer the gemstones from the solid rock.

The area is dotted with wooden shacks. Local miners clamber down rickety wooden ladders into shafts and crawl on their bellies through tunnels into narrow caves to get the crystals.

Ngoma, however, remains hopeful: “I am still very optimistic. My grandchildren will, one day, get a fair deal from my discovery. Time will tell.”

source: www.aa.com.tr

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Apr. 16, 1966 - Monkey Parking In Nairobi While his master entered the cinema in Nairobi’s main Kenyatta Avenue to inquire about the films… what better place to park his pet Monkey than on top of a nearby parking meter. The City parking inspectors, at a loss to know exactly what to do as there had been ‘‘no precedent’’ so they allowed the monkey to remain in peace-though his ‘‘Time’’ had expired.
@jumabekavu am sorry, to know more about this soma history ya parking meter ndio uelewe.

TBT cant be complete without a history of Nrb
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Date unknown. Excavations on Station road. Law courts of the protectorate were once housed on this very spot, (present day Imenti House) the scene of whipping of some africans by Grogan and two others for which he served prison time.

The history of Kenya’s Judiciary can be traced to the East African Order in Council of 1897 and the Crown
regulations made there under which marked the beginning of a legal system in Kenya. I t was based on a tripartite
division of subordinate courts; that is, Native courts, Muslim courts and those staffed by Administrative officers
and Magistrates. The first court ever to be established was in Mombasa. A dual system of superior courts was also
established, one court for Europeans and the other for Africans. This system only lasted for 5 years.
Upon the realization by the colonial authorities of the need to have dispute resolution organs, village elders,
headmen and chiefs were empowered to settle disputes as they had done in the pre-colonial period. These
traditional dispute settlement organs gradually evolved into tribunals. They were accorded official recognition in
1907 when the Native Courts Ordinance was promulgated. This ordinance established native tribunals that were
intended to serve each of the ethnic groups in Kenya.
In dispensing justice under the relevant English and Indian laws where non-Africans were concerned, the
administration of justice was entrusted to expatriate judges and magistrates. Appeals lay from subordinate courts
to the Supreme Court. The head of the system was the Chief Justice while the administrative duties were carried
out by the Registrar of the Supreme Court. The main courts were established at the large urban centers such as
Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu. Judges and magistrates on circuit served other centers.
Muslim courts were headed by a Chief Kadhi and were classified as subordinate courts. As such, appeals from
Islamic courts lay to the Supreme Court. The segregated system of administering justice prevailed until 1962 when
the African Courts were transferred from the provincial administration to the Judiciary. Further, it was not until
1963 when the independence Constitution finally enacted that the beginning of a truly independent and impartial
Judiciary was set up.

In 1967 three major laws were enacted. These were the Judicature Act (Chapter 8), the Magistrates’ Courts
Act (Chapter 10) and the Kadhis Courts Act (Chapter 11). These Acts have streamlined the administration of justice
in Kenya until the onset of a new constitutional dispensation that the country embraced in August 2010. This new
enactment brought with it massive shift and focus from the way that the judiciary was seen to be conducting its
business in the past. For the first time, the office of the Chief Justice, the Supreme court judges were advertised
and applicants were publicly interviewed and vetted.

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A SHIP THAT WAS CALLED MV KARANJA
There was actually a ships by that name and was not owned by or named after a Kikuyu man. It was owned by Shipping Corporation of India.
MV Karanja, was built by Alexander Stephen in 1948 and was one of the most important connections between India and Kenya. She was hailed as the pride of the British India Line and served the route for almost three decades. She was a 155m long ship powered by steam turbines twin screw. She weighed 10, 294 tonnes and could carry a total of 2,825 passengers on a bi-monthly run with a maximum speed of 20 knots. (about 40 KPH)
MV. Karanja normally sailed across the Indian Ocean, carrying passengers from South Asia to Africa and vice versa. She connected Bombay with Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Mozambique and South Africa. The steam ship, plied the Indian Ocean for until she was sold in 1976. Traffic between Kenya and India went down in the decade after independence, making the route unprofitable. She was eventually scrapped in 1988.
MV.Karanja was an important connection between Kenya and India, especially in the last years of colonial dominance, and Indian migration.
So you know, Karanja is in fact an Indian name. There is a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra called Karanja. It is named after Saint Karanj and is a holy place for Hindus.
Its similarity with what is now a common Kikuyu male name seems coincidental. Unless it was inspired by the Indian one

for KCr 500 hii ilikua wapi?
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hizi speaker ndio zilikua zatumika hapo
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Tech moves on so fast
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wale mlininua world space late 90s poleni.
wekeni picha of your relics

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1910s: Government Road

The East Africa protectorate become a Crown colony in 1920 and named Kenya Colony and Protectorate. Kenya is named in honour of the region’s highest mountain, Mt. Kenya.

By 1920 over 12,000 acres of wheat had been planted establishing the commercial viability of the crop.

In 1920, a central body known as the East African Currency Board was established to oversee the issuance of currency in the region. The Indian rupee was to be replaced with the East African protectorate rupees, but, this was short-lived as the East African Florins were introduced instead.

Between 1919 and 1922, missionaries led by Dr Arthur trained about 60 African medical dressers and dispensers. The 1921 Public Health ordinance required the Medical Department to assume medical responsibility for the whole Kenyan population. The department was entrusted with the task of helping in the prevention, limitation or suppression of infectious communicable or preventive diseases.

In 1921, the Salvation Army, known for its charitable work such as the school for the blind at Thika and schools for the physically handicapped, started work in Kenya.

In 1922, the first tarmac road in Kenya was built. A 20-metre long test strip was bitumenised and soon the centre of Nairobi was also tarmacked. By 1930 asphalt had spread to other towns such as Mombasa, Nakuru, Eldoret and Kisumu.

In 1923, the East African Shilling was introduced as the official currency of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika.

In 1925, the Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) was founded to process and market dairy products (mainly butter and cheese) locally and abroad.In 1928, pyrethrum cultivation was introduced to Kenya and by 1932 commercial production of pyrethrum flowers had began.

In 1925 Brooke Bond began buying land and planting tea in Kenya.

In the 1930s several roads were constructed to serve mining and tea growing areas. The mining roads were Kisian-Asembo Bay (1936), Homa Bay-Suna (1936) Mihuru Bay-Lolgorien (1936) and Kisumu-Ahero-Kibigori (1938). The Jamji-Chemagel-Lolgorien road (1937) was to connect the Kericho tea growing area with Lolgorien gold mines.

Leone Galton-Fenzi was the first man to drive from Nairobi to Mombasa in January 1926, in a Riley. He was the founder of the Royal East African Automobile Association, 1919, and Honorary Secretary until his death on May 15,1937. He also pioneered the Nairobi-Dar es Salaam to Malawi route, and the Nairobi – Khartoum route.

By 1928, Kenya’s teas were being sold at the London Tea Auction.

The Native Lands Trust Ordinance of 1930 provided that African reserves were to be “for the use and benefit of native tribes”.

In 1937, the Thika High Level Sisal Research Station was opened to support development of the industry. The research station operated for 35 years. In 1972 it was closed down and converted into the National Horticultural Research Station.

In 1938, the Crown Lands (Amendment) Ordinance created native reserves, which became vested in the Native Lands Trust Board.

By 1939, factory production in Kenya was chiefly based on processing agricultural commodities although other non-agricultural industries had began to expand, such as electricity generation; the manufacture of cement, metal wares and mineral waters; and the processing of soda ash. Before the beginning of the Second World War, British policy on industrialisation was against the development of manufacturing industries in the colonies. The British policy towards the colonies was to use them as a basis for the extraction and/or production of raw materials and foodstuffs, especially raw materials for British industries.

By 1946, Kenya’s road network consisted of approximately 27,162 kilometres of road. The first roads in Kenya to receive bitumen treatment were the Nairobi-Thika (1946), the Nairobi-Nakuru (1946) and the Kipkelion-Kericho.

In 1946, the Central Artificial Insemination Station (CAIS) was established in Kabete to control reproductive diseases and to improve genetic quality.

In 1946, the colonial government established the Kenya Sisal Board, a body charged with overseeing the sisal industry.

In 1948, construction of the first fruit canning plant, Kenya Canners was started in Thika on a site adjacent to the Metal Box factory, which supplied the tin cans. Kenya Canners was initiated as a partnership project between an English fruit farm, Pickering & West, and a group of settler farmers including Harries of Air Harries & Company. The factory was formally opened in 1950 and was equipped to can other products such as beans, peas, as well as pineapples.

On October 20, 1952, the foundation stone for the construction of the European Hospital (today known as the Nairobi hospital) was laid by Sir Evelyn Baring, Governor of the colony of Kenya. The hospital was officially opened on April 9, 1954 by the Ag. Governor Sir Fredrick Crawford. Since its opening the hospital was only open to Europeans.

In 1954, a spinning factory was opened in Juja to process twine, ropes, gunny bags and later carpets and mats from sisal fibre for the domestic and export market.

By 1955, there were 75 licensed tea farmers in Kenya. The size of the holdings ranged from 10,000 acres to less than 50 acres. In the mid-1950s the cultivation of cash crops, such as coffee, tea and pyrethrum, was opened to the Africans. The settlers resented this as they viewed it as competition.

In 1950 the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) was established.

In 1958, the Kenya Dairy Board (KDB) was established to regulate dairy marketing.

The Mau Mau engaged the colonial government in guerilla warfare from 1952 to 1956 when the leader of the movement, Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi was captured. Kimathi was captured on October 21, 1956 and executed by the colonial government in February 18, 1957.

By the 1950s the number of White settlers in Kenya was estimated at 80,000. Agricultural produce from the White settler farms also increased, as a result small railway stations were developed for ease of transportation of the produce. These stations include: Nakuru, Naivasha, Tigoni, Kijabe and Sigona.

In 1959 the British government revoked the Land Ordinance of 1939 and opened up the White Highlands to the Africans.

On March 3, 1959 Hola massacre in which 11 prisoners were beaten to death while 23 needed hospital treatment. Hola camp housed detainees classified as “hard-core”. By January 1959 the camp had a population of 506 detainees of whom 127 were held in a secluded “closed camp” reserved for the uncooperative of the detainees. On March 3,1959, 85 prisoners were marched outside and ordered to work but “dozens of the prisoners fell to the ground refusing to work” and were beaten by the guards.

In 1960, the Kenya African National Union (KANU), an African party, which advocated for a unitary government, and with the slogan “Uhuru” was formed under the leadership of Kikuyu leader James Gichuru and labour leader Tom Mboya. A split in KANU produced the breakaway rival party, the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), led by Ronald Ngala and Masinde Muliro, which advocated for a quasi-federal government (Majimbo).

On August 21,1961, nine years after his arrest, Kenyatta was freed from all restrictions. In 0ctober 1961, Kenyatta took on the leadership of the KANU, which proceeded to win the pre-independence elections of May 18, 1963.
The first full franchise General Elections were held in May 1963 and KANU emerged the winner.

On May 27, 1963, Jomo Kenyatta was elected prime minister in Kenya’s first multi-racial elections.

source: Maina Kiarie for www.enzimuseum.org

Lion Cub presented to Mr. & Mrs. Raymond C. Firestone by Kenya Government in 1968.

Photo taken at Nairobi animal Orphanage when an 8 month old lion was presented by the Kenya Government to Mr. Raymond C. Firestone, Head of the American tire company in Akron, Ohio. He in turn would donate the lion to Overton Park Zoo in Memphis, Tennessee. The Lion called Jimmy became an orphan when his mother was shot by the Kenya game department officials in Wajir (Northern Kenya), because she was a man eater.
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ata mimi hii nimejua leo nikiwa kwa archives.
naomba msaidizi nimpe kifunguo

1940s wood burning power station at Ruiru.
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where did we go wrong

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Margaret Kenyatta, sworn in as mayor of Nairobi AUG 1972.

She was the daughter of Jomo Kenyatta, Grace Wahu. She served as the Mayor of Nairobi from 1970 to 1976 and as Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1976 to 1986.

Margaret Wambui Kenyatta was born on 16th February 1928 at Pumwani Maternity Hospital to then Kikuyu Central Association Secretary General Jomo Kenyatta and his first wife Grace Wahu. At the time of her birth, her father was an active politician who was constantly out of the country and therefore Margaret’s younger life was spent around her mother and older brother Peter Muigai.

Margaret and her family lived in Gichungo near the Dagoretti Children’s Centre. Margaret was a bright and inquisitive child who got to understand the colonial injustices at a young age.

Despite being a brilliant child however, she did not get to go to school until she was ten years old when she joined Ruthimitu Primary School and later on joined the Church of Scotland Mission School in Thogoto.

On passing her primary school final exams , Margaret now posed a great challenge to her teachers. There were no high schools for African girls at the time. As destiny would have it Margaret was admitted to the Alliance High School (now Alliance Boys High School). She was given an unique admission number 1000 to distinguish her as the first girl admitted to the school.

Upon clearing her high school studies in 1949 Margaret went on to take a teaching post at the Kenya Teacher’s Training College in Githunguri, where she taught without earning a salary. She taught for three years until the college was closed down in 1952 after the state of emergency was declared.

Her father was arrested during the state of emergency and Margaret took over the responsibility of providing for her mother while her father and brother were in detention. Living in Kariokor Estate Nairobi in House Number 27, Margaret searched for employment and landed several jobs as a telephone operator for East Africa Bata Shoe Company, a junior accounts clerk and a book binder working for Mr. Ambu H. Patel. They say ‘the apple never falls far from the tree’. True to this Margaret was influenced by her father and became involved in politics as soon as her father was released from detention in 1961. A passionate advocate of women’s rights, Margaret was chairlady of the Kenya Women Seminar and was actively involved in Maendeleo ya Wanawake and the Young Women’s Christian Association. Her active advocacy of women rights earned her the order of the Queen of Sheba awarded by Emperor Haile Selassie.

Her political career went to full gear when she was elected councilor for Dagoretti Ward in 1963 serving for four terms. She was chairlady of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital sub-committee during the reconstruction of the hospital and served as chairwoman of the Public Health Committee.

Margaret was elected deputy governor for Nairobi in 1969 then rose to become the first African woman to become the mayor of Kenya’s capital city a post she held for two terms (1970-1976). During her tenure as mayor Margaret convinced the Austrian President to open the SOS children’s homes in Kenya.

In 1976 Margaret was appointed Kenya’s Permanent Representative to UNEP and UN Habitat. She also served as commissioner in the Electoral Commission of Kenya from 1992-2002. After her tenure at the electoral body Margaret quietly left the public life. A woman of many accomplishments, Margaret was a member of the Green Belt Movement, the Kenya Girl Guide Association and sat in several boards such as the board of the Kiambu Institute of Technology and Kenya High School. She was also instrumental in the founding of the Starehe Girls Centre. On April 5, 2017, while in the comfort of her home, Margaret Wambui Kenyatta passed on, leaving behind a legacy of great accomplishments. Half-sister to the current president of Kenya and mother to the late Justice Patrick John Kamau, Margaret indeed lived a full life.

source: www.standardmedia.co.ke

Sting your opponent like a bee , or chew them like a cannibal. rare photo of Eddy Merckx and Mohammed Ali
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for those who dont know Eddy Merckx he is the greatest cheki maneno guy

read more here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Merckx